Description
Position Overview
As our Senior Director of Data, you will serve as the strategic visionary and executive engine powering our company’s data transformation. In this high-impact leadership role, you will redefine how we leverage information by driving enterprise data strategy, pioneering AI data readiness, commanding end-to-end pipeline engineering, and unlocking competitive advantages through cutting-edge predictive analytics. You will champion, build, and inspire a world-class team across data engineering, analytics, and data science, scaling modern infrastructure, deploying production-grade ML models, and relentlessly embedding a fearless, evidence-based, data-driven culture across every level of the organization.
Key Responsibilities
1. Strategy & Organizational Data Leadership
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- Define and execute the enterprise data, AI data readiness, and analytics strategy aligned with business objectives.
- Champion a data-driven culture across departments by elevating data literacy and self-service analytics.
- Build, mentor, and lead high-performing teams of data engineers, data scientists, and analysts.
2. AI Readiness & Data Science Leadership
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- Drive the AI data strategy, ensuring data is curated, labeled, and optimized for ML/AI model development and deployment.
- Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of machine learning models, predictive analytics, and feature store infrastructure.
- Collaborate with business partners to identify high-impact AI/ML opportunities that drive strategic value.
3. Pipeline Engineering & Infrastructure
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- Oversee modern data engineering, architectural design, and reliable ETL/ELT pipelines for batch and real-time processing.
- Architect scalable data warehouses, data lakes, and modern data stack operations (MLOps).
4. Governance, Analytics & Reporting
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- Establish governance policies to ensure high data quality, security, and global regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
- Deliver key executive dashboards, visualizations, and A/B testing frameworks to measure operational KPIs.
Qualifications
- Experience: 10+ years of progressive leadership experience across data engineering, analytics, and data science.
- Leadership: Proven track record of managing data engineering and ML teams while fostering a data-driven organizational culture.
- Technical Mastery: Strong hands-on knowledge of Python, SQL, modern ETL tools, cloud data warehouses, and major ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn).
- Architecture & Pipelines: Deep expertise in pipeline design, streaming data architectures, MLOps, and feature store management.
- Education: Master's or Ph.D. in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or related quantitative field.
- Communication: Excellent capability to translate complex technical concepts into clear strategic insights for non-technical stakeholders.
The posted pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the compensation for this position and is subject to change based on business need. To determine a successful candidate’s starting pay, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location, an evaluation of the candidate’s skills and experience, market demands, and internal parity.
For roles with on-target-earnings (OTE), the pay range includes both base salary and target incentive compensation. Target incentive compensation for some roles may include a ramping draw period. Compensation is higher for those who exceed targets. Candidates may receive more information from the recruiter.
Navan uses AI-assisted Automated Employment Decision Tool (Metaview) to assist with evaluating resumes against job qualifications for this role. All final decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers.
Human oversight: Metaview does not automatically reject candidates or make final hiring decisions. Our recruiters and hiring managers review all outputs and make the final hiring decision regarding every application.
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